WhatsApp will protect backups saved on Google Drive
The company has introduced version 2.21.10.2 in the Beta program, which enables end-to-end encryption to be activated
WhatsApp has been working on the encryption of backups in the cloud for a long time, a function that it has just introduced in the beta version of the Android application and that will reach users in a future update.
The company has introduced version 2.21.10.2 of its Android application in the Google Play Beta program, in which it allows activating end-to-end encryption to protect backup copies in the cloud.
With this feature, both the message history and the multimedia files that the user saves in Google Drive will be protected from unauthorized access, as shown in the capture shared by the WABetaInfo portal.
When activating this feature, the application will ask the user to enter a password that will serve to “encrypt future copies”. When the user wants to use said copy on a new device, WhatsApp will ask again for the same password to decrypt it. The user will be able to modify the password as long as the function is active, or even deactivate the encryption whenever it deems appropriate.
Likewise, from the application they indicate that the password is private, which means that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook, nor any other person, can access it or the content of the protected backup copy. Precisely for this reason, if the user loses or forgets it, the company will not be able to help him recover it, although he can create a recovery key to avoid this problem.
Source: dpa
